[Qgis-user] Drag and drop files into QGIS - Silly Question

Mike Flannigan mikeflan at att.net
Thu Aug 29 17:29:52 PDT 2019


Hi,

Don't be surprised if I am wrong, but I say drag and
drop comes naturally and you cannot turn it off.

Try Layer - Add Layer - Add Vector Layer.

Does that work?

Are you on Windows?

I use 3.2.0 on Win7.


Mike



On 8/29/2019 2:11 AM, qgis-user-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have a brand new PC, have set up QGIS, exported and imported my QGIS
> profile from my old PC and all is working perfectly with QGIS and added
> plugins ect apart from the ability to drag and drop shp file (or MapInfo tab
> or any files) directly into the layer panel in QGIS.  Am I missing something
> obvious, but for the life of me I can't find any setting that may enable or
> disable this or much on the web about it?
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony



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